Peaceful steps despite political pressure

The challenges of Chinese House Churches

Abstract

Editors’ note: The IJRF is publishing this documentation by multiple authors in the knowledge that no single statement on China is true for the whole country. We also point to the Zurich Statement on the Church in China by the Religious Liberty Partnership in 2008 which includes a differentiated acknowledgement of advances regarding religious freedom in China over the past decades (http://tinyurl.com/zurich08). Regretfully the situation reported in this documentation must equally be noted. Also see recommendations for background reading at the end.